Wednesday, September 24, 2008

singing in melb

Last weekend I was in melb for 1 of my cousins wedding. It was an extremely busy weekend since the week before I hardly slept having to finish assignments which were due.
I had to sing during the wedding service 'Pie Jesu' with life string trio. The only problem was these players only want to rehearse right before the wedding which is so unprofessional and they're not even professional yet. Only students and they were already acting so uptight. I had to act tough and act like I'm as good as them or even better even though I didn't felt confident.
I rehearsed once and went through it a couple more times before I had to get to my post ushering at the door.
Sang the song and surprisinly my voice went smoothly. Late on most of the ppl tat attended the service came over and said I have a beautiful voice and I sang wonderfully. I wasn't quite expecting it. After all I seldom get comments like those and I'm never confident with myself. So that day was good besides it being a perfect day in melb for a wedding (melb has 4 seasons in a day-seriously).
Night time at the reception, I sang again but this time it was a surprise. I wrote the song and decided to give it a go instead of keeping it to myself even though I'm not confident about it. A couple of ppl asked if I was singing again. I noded but asked them to shush since it was a surprise but a lady was pretty noisy later on realizing she had to shut up. but the surprise was good. The song was about the couple and when I sang it, they seemed to know it was about them which made me feel happy.
When I started singing, the waiters in the restaurant all came out. They even called out the other waiters and workers from the kitchen to come out and see and listen to me. The other guest in the restaurant had their eyes on me. Everyone had their attention towards me. I was prepared for the ppl who was attending the wedding but not everyone else so legs started trembling and since I sang after food, I was full and didn't sing as good as I wanted to present it but some ppl said I did good although I wasn't too happy on how I did. I think I was too full...
I'll post the song on the next post and the lyrics when I'm free. Too many things to do.
But yea, I practically became famous within a day. Ppl knew my name just because I sang. People knew who I was those that heard and saw me sing. Ppl loved my singing. And it made me love it. Love the feeling which felt like a drug to me. I want more of it. I want to sing more. I wanna go through all my fears of stage and just sing out.
I AM improving but just bit by bit.

2 Comments:

At 10:42 pm, Blogger JH Kueh said...

:D

I miss and missed your singing.

Can't wait, can't wait...for next post




P/S: Melb has 4 seasons in a day?? Hardly apparent to me. At most, I'd noticed that it could be very hot by day and very cold at night, a weeks ago. I think it's more correct to say that melb has 4 seasons in a week...lol...cause it could be hot today and cold the day after.

 
At 11:42 pm, Blogger mya said...

=)
seasons as in it could be hot, windy, hailing, raining, cold... those kinda things. Been there 3 times. So i should know what I'm saying or confirming what everyone in melb have been telling me

 

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